Risk Officer at Sterling Asset Management & Trustees Limited

Summary of Job Description:

• The ideal candidate will develop and supervise the implementation of a company-wide risk management, and governance systems framework.
• Management of risk to create processes for assessing, identifying, monitoring and preventing operational, technical & business risks.
• Conduct periodic risk assessment, threat analysis and security reviews and submit written recommendations to management
• Coordinating internal compliance review and monitoring activities, including periodic reviews of departments.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor or Master's Degree in Financial Regulations & Risk Management, Insurance, Risk Management and any other acceptable fields of study.
• Membership of and certification by the risk management and insurance professional bodies such as ACIIN,PRM,CRMA,CRM,ORML & CPRM is a requirement
• Demonstrable competence in forensic risk assessment, audit practices, risk management, business continuity planning
• Not have been dismissed or found guilty of fraud, dishonesty or any offence of a criminal nature in previous jobs
• Minimum of 7 years progressive work experience in a well-organized corporate organization, including the last at least 4 years risk management experience in an audit firm

Skills & Competencies

• Sound understanding of asset risk and mitigants to such risk factors
• Must be skilled in all facets of Debt Recovery
• Ability to monitor and prosecute cases
• Proven ability to maintain contact and relationships with state and national security agencies/officials
• Ability to identify the relationship between the risk type and the price of the asset
• Able to Break down assets into individual components in a structured product
• Accurately Judge the appropriateness of an organization's policies and procedures against industry best practices and/or regulations
• Able to determine the flow of relevant risk information within an organization
• Confirm that a risk model is producing unbiased results
• Validate a risk model and evaluate its effectiveness
• Calculate metrics (including appropriate use of formulas)
• Determine the limitations of risk metrics
• Perform liquidity risk analysis & stress testing and scenario analyses